I like spreading the word of serious talent because 90% of the times the best I've ever seen or heard are the ones that not enough people know about. God knows there's a lot of crap in the mainstream in North America these days.

Drinking, watching local bands play, observing people, reading, meditation, sex, solving problems, etc

Die, Pain of Salvation, Porcupine Tree, Phoenix Theory, Fugitive, Anekdoten, Dredg, Enslaved, Poison The Well, etc.